10-06-2016, 11:30 AM
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#921
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
The airport has now been officially renamed "YYC Calgary International Airport".
Meh, I think this was a missed opportunity to restore the McCall name into it and honour some aviation history in our city.
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I'm surprised it wasn't named after a famous Calgarian?
Ex.
Peter Lougheed
Ralph Klein
Hitman Hart
Erik Everhard
Last edited by troutman; 10-07-2016 at 09:12 AM.
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10-06-2016, 11:36 AM
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#922
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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They're just waiting until it's an appropriate time to name it after Stephen Harper.
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10-06-2016, 11:43 AM
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#923
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
I`m surprised it wasn't named after a famous Calgarian?
Ex.
Peter Lougheed
Ralph Klein
Hitman Hart
Erik Everhard
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McCall is a famous Calgarian and the only one tied to aviation so he get's my vote. But Calgary EverHard International Airporst has a nice ring to it as well.
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10-06-2016, 11:52 AM
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#924
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
I`m surprised it wasn't named after a famous Calgarian?
Ex.
Peter Lougheed
Ralph Klein
Hitman Hart
Erik Everhard
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The Rick Bellodrome.
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10-06-2016, 11:54 AM
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#925
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Yeah I see no reason to give naming to a politician or other local celebrity when we had a WWI flying ace that was honoured with the airport name originally:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_McCall
Edit: Ok, maybe the Rick Bellodrome but only if we implode the whole thing and hire Calatrava to design the terminal and build again.
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10-06-2016, 12:13 PM
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#926
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In the Sin Bin
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The "Pre-Dion Phaneuf, Elisha Cuthbert, like back in 2007 when she was super hot, International Airport"
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10-06-2016, 12:20 PM
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#927
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Tegan and Sarport
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10-06-2016, 12:35 PM
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#928
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Lifetime Suspension
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Naheed Nenshi Airport Taxi Tunnel International Airport
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10-06-2016, 12:38 PM
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#929
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Kelowna
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The "EllisDon Delays Calgary International Airport" makes the most sense to me
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10-06-2016, 12:39 PM
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#930
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Looooooooooooooch
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpine Fisher
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Too tame.
Naheed "Spendshi" Nenshi Airport Taxi "Uber Sucks" Tunnel International Airport
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10-06-2016, 12:40 PM
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#931
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigtime
The airport has now been officially renamed "YYC Calgary International Airport".
Meh, I think this was a missed opportunity to restore the McCall name into it and honour some aviation history in our city.
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seriously - ladies and gentleman this cpatian smith from the flightdeck - today our trip to YYC Calgary International will take 4 hours - be glad you don't have to go to Edmonton instead
best name since the Ottawa redblacks were introduced
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10-06-2016, 03:05 PM
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#932
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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We need to somehow get the entire city to just start calling it McCall International.
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10-06-2016, 03:13 PM
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#933
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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I know Michael Platt at the Sun would be on board with that. He wrote about the field being McCall previously a few years ago.
Update: He's going to have an article in The Sun on Sunday about this.
Last edited by Bigtime; 10-07-2016 at 06:55 AM.
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10-06-2016, 03:16 PM
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#934
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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If I had more time, I would set up a twitter account @FlyMcCall and make it tweet everything @FlyYYC tweets but change YYC Calgary to McCall.
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10-06-2016, 03:37 PM
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#935
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Should've called it YYC McCallgary International and made everyone happy.
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10-06-2016, 10:52 PM
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#936
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Scoring Winger
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Airporty McAirportface
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10-07-2016, 07:16 AM
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#937
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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wait, so we're going to have to refer to our former Prime Minister as YYC Calgary International Airport?
That just seems cumbersome
- Brian Mulroney
- Kim Campbell
- Jean Chrétien
- Paul Martin
- YYC Calgary International Airport
- Justin Trudeau
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...tion-1.3299702
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10-07-2016, 09:51 AM
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#938
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CedarMeter
Here's an article and video on the new Calgary airport. I see they're going to the kiosk system(Automated Passport Clearance) at Canadian customs, just like Vancouver has. That will speed things up for sure.
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Speeds things up? Hardly. In the wretched area known as YVR US customs transfers (how can an otherwise nice airport mark off such a small area for something so critical) those 8 machines repeatedly crashed and were so slow that they started waving people through straight to the staffed kiosks to make the flight. With toddlers, it's rather comical to hold your kids up one by one to image them. And slow given you have to buckle them back into strollers.
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10-07-2016, 10:00 AM
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#939
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by I-Hate-Hulse
With toddlers, it's rather comical to hold your kids up one by one to image them. And slow given you have to buckle them back into strollers.
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Oh man, half the time it takes the photo right as I'm bending down to pick up the kid, because its on a counter and you dont have time to get the kids out. They really need to add a button so it takes it when your ready, or the ability to retake. Half the time it just gets a shot of the the top of people's backs as they scramble.
I also hate that you go through the kiosk process, and then half the time you still go through the same damn thing with the customs agent.
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10-07-2016, 10:16 AM
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#940
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Calgary
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I say we offer JG $6.5 mil x 8 years AND we rename it to Gaudreau International Airport.
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